/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>the captcha thought fondue was soup

ok.. here's the thing... A moka pot makes bad fucking coffee okay .The entire apparatus heats up and scalds your brew, giving it a bitter taste. Yes, you can avoid this with some technique, but it's still a crap shoot. The whole fucking design is flawed so you have to learn to work around it. The Aeropress doesn't have this problem. It's designed well and works with you instead of against you.
The moka pot has lots of small inaccessible places that are difficult or im fucking possible to clean. Sure, people say you should season it, but one mans seasoning is another mans rancid coffee oil that makes everything taste stale. That's without going into the problem with mould if you store it without use for a long time. Aeropress? Easiest thing in the world to clean.
Moka pots are also susceptible to corrosion and pitting over time. Aluminum + heat + water = corrosion. Aeropress is made of plastic. Sure it might crack and discolor and wear out over several thousand brews, but it won't impart any off flavours to your coffee.
Aeropress is far, far more versatile. You control coffee dose, brew water and contact time. Long steep with a coarse grind? Go for it. Short steep, fine grind? Absolutely. Coffee concentrate? Sure. Regular strength, single cup brew? Why not. Moka pot? Sorry, just a poor imitation of espresso.
Thats just the way it fucking is
tl;dr: Aeropress makes better coffee, is easier to clean, is comparably durable and is more versatile. I don't know why anyone would get a Moka pot instead.